19 episodes

A monthly chat between a journalist and an expert on a defined topic, mostly on ethical and legal issues connected to data protection and ICT. The show is part of the EU funded project Panelfit: www.panelfit.eu

Data protection and ICT OBC Transeuropa

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A monthly chat between a journalist and an expert on a defined topic, mostly on ethical and legal issues connected to data protection and ICT. The show is part of the EU funded project Panelfit: www.panelfit.eu

    Data Pollution and Power Dynamics [Gry Hasselbalch]

    Data Pollution and Power Dynamics [Gry Hasselbalch]

    A conversation with Gry Hasselbalch, co-founder of DataEthics.eu, on how power dynamics impact the field of AI in terms of fundamental rights, sustainability, etc.

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    • 44 min
    Journalism under surveillance [Philip Di Salvo]

    Journalism under surveillance [Philip Di Salvo]

    Philip Di Salvo, post-doctoral researcher at the Università della Svizzera italiana, was interviewed about, spyware, surveillance and cyberattacks against journalists, and how newsrooms can defend themselves. Hosts were Federico Caruso and Dimitri Bettoni from OBC Transeuropa - EDJNet.

    This episode was produced within the project DJAS, supported in part by a grant from the Foundation Open Society Institute in cooperation with the OSIFE of the Open Society Foundations. The contents of this event are the sole responsibility of OBC Transeuropa.
    DJAS has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 765140.

    • 49 min
    Data protection and Unlawful Cookie Banners [Stefano Rossetti, noyb]

    Data protection and Unlawful Cookie Banners [Stefano Rossetti, noyb]

    How to prevent companies from misusing cookie banners to collect users’ data? What solutions are there to safeguard citizens’ online privacy?
    We try to answer with Stefano Rossetti, a data protection lawyer at noyb.

    • Can you please briefly introduce yourself and your organisation? [1’06’’]
    • Could you please tell us about the “500 GDPR complaints” and “browser signal” campaigns? [3’22’’]
    • Is the GDPR a hindrance or a tool to fight this battle? [18’54’’]
    • Besides being unlawful, what are the risks of this spread of users’ information? [24’22’’]
    • When I click “Refuse” (where possible), my Privacy Badger plugin still warns me that it has prevented potential third party cookies to track me. Are even lawful cookies really lawful? Or, in other words: Do we know what websites actually do with our data, besides banners’ claims? [29’25’’]
    • [From the audience] Is it lawful for companies to use, for whatever purpose, sensitive categories of data collected by tracking online users (even if one gives consent to that)? [34’44’’]
    • [From the audience] What do you think about the Norwegian Consumer Council to completely ban surveillance advertising? [41’56’’]
    • What do you think about Apple’s initiative to protect users’ privacy: is Europe letting big tech companies take the lead as policymakers on this matter? [48’00’’]

    • 55 min
    Data protection and information society [Patrick Penninckx, Council of Europe]

    Data protection and information society [Patrick Penninckx, Council of Europe]

    How is digitalisation impacting the work of journalists? How are social media influencing the distribution of the information? We talked of these issues with Patrick Penninckx, Head of Information Society Department at the Council of Europe.


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    Intro Music: Corporate Innovation by WinnieTheMoog
    Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6067-corporate-innovation
    License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

    • 45 min
    Convention 108+ and digital rights [Sophie Kwasny, Council of Europe]

    Convention 108+ and digital rights [Sophie Kwasny, Council of Europe]

    Sophie Kwasny, Head of the Data Protection Unit at the Council of Europe, talking about the Convention for the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data (Convention 108), approved in 1981 and revamped in 2018, the same year GDPR came into force.
    We also touched upon issues such as transborder data flows and facial recognition.

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    Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/panelfit

    Intro Music: Corporate Innovation by WinnieTheMoog
    Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6067-corporate-innovation
    License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

    • 45 min
    Data practices in border management

    Data practices in border management

    Digital technologies reconfigure the rationales, techniques and practices of border security and migration management. We explored these issues with Georgios Glouftsios, a researcher at the University of Trento, whose work is focused on analysing how data infrastructures shape the logics and tactics of mobility control in Europe.

    Here are some of the books and articles we mentioned:
    - When Biometrics Fail: Gender, Race, and the Technology of Identity, by Shoshana Amielle Magnet. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/when-biometrics-fail-shoshana-amielle-magnet/1111754660
    - Data derivatives: on the emergence of a security risk calculus for our times, by Louise A. Moore. https://dro.dur.ac.uk/9331/
    - Artificial Unintelligence, By Meredith Broussard. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/artificial-unintelligence

    Intro Music: Corporate Innovation by WinnieTheMoog
    Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6067-corporate-innovation
    License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

    • 54 min

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